- Peter and Olivia look into the latest appearance of an observer, other than September, who kidnaps a young woman. August prevents her from getting on a plane that would crash.
- When the art student Christine Hollis is abducted by an Observer who is shot but not wounded, Olivia and Peter are assigned to investigate the weird case. Soon they find that there is another Observer (called August), and not the one they know that saved Peter and Dr. Bishop from a car accident. They interview Christine's roommate who explains that Christine was to have taken a flight to Rome. Peter sees a picture of Christine and her parents, who died in the San Francisco earthquake, and he finds the Observer in the background. When the plane to Rome crashes, the Fringe Division concludes that August has saved Christine's life. Meanwhile the other Observers hire a hit man to fix August's mistake. What would be the reason for August's action?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- When a peculiar abduction occurs in Boston, the Fringe team uncovers details of the mysterious man known as The Observer. While the bizarre case takes center stage, Walter, Peter and Astrid hit the lab to analyze unusual evidence and deal with Walter's insatiable appetite for a milkshake.—FOX Publicity
- (Previously on... The Observer tells Walter there is more than one of everything and Olivia wonders who he is. Broyles tells her he's been spotted at over three dozen scenes, all related to the pattern. He's observing, thus the name. Walter visits Peter's grave and tells him a man saved them when he was young.)
Boston, Mass. The Observer does as the name implies, taking notes in his code as he watches a scene in the park...except it's not the Original Observer, it's a different one, same bald head, same gray suit, same lack of eyebrows.
He takes a teddy bear out of his briefcase and leaves his notebook behind. He walks up to a young woman and tells her to come with him. When she struggles, people notice. He pulls out a gun and shoots someone with a pulse of energy. He tranquilizes the woman and breaks into a car. A nearby rent-a-cop shoots at him and can't seem to hit him.
Observer Two starts the car by pressing his thumb to the ignition. He drives away with the girl passed out in his back seat.
At home, Olivia is woken up by her niece, who's excited for her day at the amusement park. Then Olivia gets a call and even her niece can tell the day is off. Olivia compensates with pancakes.
Olivia tells the Bishops about the Observer Two sighting. Walter is distracted in the kitchen, working on what looks to be the perfect milkshake. Peter explains his favorite ice cream shop closed yesterday. He's clearly beside himself trying to recreate the shake. Olivia snaps him out of it with Observer talk.
In the lab, Walter recites the frozen lake car crash story from when Peter was a boy and the Observer saved them.
Astrid shows them the security camera footage from the abduction. They realize they're dealing with a different Observer. They play the footage in SlowMo, and it shows him catching a bullet in the palm of his hand.
Lowell, Mass. in a low rent motel.
Observer Two calmly ties the woman to the bed, reciting her protests as she says them. He gags her, telling her it's safer if she stays quiet.
He leaves.
Broyles tells us the woman is Christine, 27 years old, and a grad student. There's nothing unusual about her at all. Olivia wonders why an Observer has gotten involved.
In the lab, Peter thinks he has found blood in the Observer's notebook. Walter is distracted. Peter asks if The Observer ever told Walter why he saved them. Walter says no. Peter thinks they're tied into whatever William Bell told Olivia about.
Astrid works on the language and finds over 200 distinct, non-repeating characters, which means it can't be a language. Peter wonders if it's a code. Walter perks up, but says nothing.
Olivia checks on the blood. It's orange.
Astrid finds someone else has been investigating the symbols. Walter perks up again.
Olivia and Peter head to Massive Dynamic, where a Super Huge Nerd tells them some of the symbols are found on the world's oldest artifacts.
He has no idea what they mean, but he does have an art history lesson. He shows them paintings from as far back as the 1700s featuring the Boson Massacre, Marie Antoinette and the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand -- all of them with Observers in the background.
They Super Nerd explains that The Observers might not follow our concept of time. He demonstrates with a tube of liquid, closing both ends to demonstrate time happening all at once. He spills the liquid all over his shoes as he explains that they appear rarely and only at important moments in history, maybe two dozen times in the last 5,000 years. But he's found 26 sightings in the past three months.
So why now, what's about to happen?
Cut to the Original Observer, at an Indian restaurant with an older Observer. They are joined by another, who tells them they have a "situation" with August. He shows them the abduction photos. He doesn't know who the woman is, but says she's supposed to be on flight 821. It's already left the terminal. The older Observer says August has created an irregularity and they'll have to repair it.
They contact Donald.
Cut to a not bald, not suit-wearing man, who opens a "thingyamajiggy" and sees three green dots and one red. He goes to his car where he receives a print out of Christine.
Olivia talks to Christine's friend, who's subletting her room. She tells Olivia that Christine was supposed to leave today for a semester in Rome.
Peter asks about a photo on her mantel of young Christine holding a teddy bear. The friend says shortly after the photo was taken, her parents were killed in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
There's an Observer in the picture's background.
Back in the motel, Christine struggles to get free and succeeds in breaking the bed she's tied to. Then August Observer returns. He brought her food.
He sees that she hurt herself trying to get free. He seems bothered.
She asks what he wants. He says it'd be easier to show her.
He turns on the news, telling her it will be just a minute.
Olivia tells Peter about her canceled plans with Ella. She tells him about her mom taking her to see her first movie when she was 6. They're interrupted by a news report about the crash of flight 821 from Boston to Rome.
In the motel room, Christine watches the footage of the wreckage. August tells her she was going to die. He saved her. He says there's something else he has to do. He apologizes again for gagging her. She doesn't fight it.
Walter works on the code as Olivia and Peter return to the lab wondering how the Observer knew about the crash.
Astrid gets the report on the orange blood. It's not blood at all, but hot sauce. Really hot sauce from the King Cobra chili pepper. Astrid gets to work finding places in Boston that sell them.
August Observer joins his fellow watchers at the Indian restaurant, to face their blank, yet judge-y, stares.
He tells them he's watched Christine for most of her life. The Original Observer says they're all unique, that doesn't mean they interfere. When August reminds him they have before, OO says that was only to correct a mistake of their own making.
OO tells August that Christine has no future. "Then why do I see it?" August says.
The older Observer tells him they've already seen to correcting his oversight.
Olivia reads about Christine, who was raised by her mom's best friend in Wooster but is unremarkable.
Astrid finds a private citizen who imported the peppers. Walter eavesdrops as Olivia tells Astrid to calls Broyles. He distracts Astrid with a shopping errand for his milkshake, then leaves the lab.
Donald uses a key to enter an empty apartment and looks around with his gun drawn. There are pictures of Christine throughout her life taken from a distance.
Walter arrives at the Indian restaurant, where the August Observer was expecting him. Walter got his message in the code -- a Nitrogen molecule. Walter sits and begins by asking him not to take his son. He says he had a deal with the other one. But that's not why August contacted him. He needs his help.
In that case, he wants to call Peter and Olivia.
But August thinks they're occupied right now.
Cut to Peter and Olivia walking up to the apartment Donald is in. He finds a yellow pages marked to a page of hotels. Peter and Olivia bust in but see nothing -- at least until Donald puts his gun to the back of Peter's head.
Peter starts to kneel as he's told, but whirls around and disarms Donald. He gets away.
August tells Walter about the Observers being determined to kill Christine. He thinks Walter can help because he saw beyond the limitations of his problems before. Walter says he just missed his son.
He asks what's so important about Christine. August can't explain, but says he's sure something is. Walter tells him to make her important and be prepared to face the consequences.
Peter finds a newspaper from 1884 in the apartment.
August returns to Christine. He unties her, asking if she trusts him. Yes.
He tells her to do exactly as he says.
Peter checks out the wall o' old newspapers in August's apartment, all of important events in history.
Olivia gets a report about August being spotted at a motel in Lowell.
At the motel, Donald walks in, only to get zapped by August's stun blaster. He gets up and follows. August lets him catch up. He doesn't fire as Olivia and Peter pull up. Donald says he has no quarrel with him, just wants to know where the girl is. As August doesn't answer, Donald asks if he's insane. August says good bye and lets Donald shoot him.
Olivia fires at him. Peter checks on August, who puts his blaster in Peter's hand.
Olivia follows Donald to the motel's second floor. He appears on a roof behind her. Peter zaps him with the gun and Olivia hits him on his way down.
Olivia looks for Christine in the motel. She finds her wedged in a hotel bed. Christine asks about the man who took her.
In a car, the Original Observer drives a wounded August, who tells him about meeting Christine when she was a child and not being able to forget her. He says he thinks it's what they call feelings. He thinks he loves her.
As he fades, he asks if she'll be safe. "Yes, you made her important," the Original Observer says, "she was responsible for the death of one of us."
Back in her apartment, Walter gives her the teddy bear in the red T-shirt that August gave him. This is news to Peter. She says she was holding it in the backseat of the car when the bridge collapsed in San Francisco.
As they leave, Peter asks his dad when he saw the Observer and why he didn't tell him. Peter's agitated, saying they're close and he thinks the Observers have the answers.
Walter tells him not to worry about it.
Broyles tells Olivia the man she shot was Donald Long, an assassin. He tells her the techs can't make the Observer's gun fire. And the tip that he was spotted came in from one of the motel phones. Olivia thinks he must have realized he couldn't protect her on his own.
She asks to take the rest of the day off.
Cut to Olivia on a roller coaster with her niece. In the distance, the Original Observer watches. The Old Observer joins him. "Look how happy she is," he says, "it's a shame things are about to get so hard for her."
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